Activision announces Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and DJ Hero!!!

I’m going to be broke by the time fall rolls around. Seriously, with The Beatles Rock Band and now three Guitar Hero titles, I’ll be out donating massive amounts of blood, selling my old comic books to the shop down the street or selling anything not nailed to the ground on eBay.

Here are the details on the press release with my comments in bold:

· The company’s groundbreaking DJ Hero expands Guitar Hero’s signature social gaming to all-new consumers with the addition of diverse music genres including hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica and dance. Introducing an all-new innovative turntable controller, DJ Hero transforms players into DJs who rule the club scene by creating original mixes of popular songs and music from the world’s most exciting artists and DJs.

That new peripheral looks wild. I wonder if it the game will come with two turntables and microphone. I hear that this game may be where it’s at.

· Letting fans continue to fulfill their rock fantasies, Guitar Hero 5 features the hottest rock and roll artists today as well as classic rock bands and gives players an unprecedented level of control over the way they play the game with the ability to drop in and out of songs and change band members, instruments and difficulty levels on the fly.I’m not sure what they can do to improve on Guitar Hero, but it’ll be interesting to see. I imagine there’s just going to be more polish on the interface, maybe a couple of harder songs, a new mode or two.

· The franchises’ first E10+ rated console game, Band Hero delivers an exciting music collection featuring top-40 hits designed to expand the experience to a new genre and appeal to a broad family audience who can play together on the guitar, drums, bass and microphone. The game builds upon Guitar Hero’s easy-to-play, difficult-to-master signature gameplay and allows novice players and expert fans to join together on their favorite songs.So I’m think this game may be dueling with LEGO Rock Band for the hearts of little child rockers everywhere. It makes me wonder if there’ll be a super-deformed anime version of Lars Umlaut.